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Here a quartermaster must discover why the human insists that the mass produced broom, identical down to the molecule to every other broom on the base, is the "wrong" broom, and why and how they expect him to fix it. Here aliens learn the meaning of "enough C4". Here a medic meets the challenge of understanding why a human thinks it can survive on chocolate cake.

Dentro de dos semanas llegan a la tierra 98 jóvenes del planeta Ish, a 4.3 años luz Llevan viajando 239 años, buscando un lugar en el universo donde vivir y evitar que su raza se extinga. Su única posibilidad es el planeta azul. Huyen de la facción violenta de su planeta, los ADIS o adoradores de Ish, que quieren colonizar todos los planetas habitables del universo, entre ellos el planeta azul. Los ADIS han enviado un robot de avanzadilla a la tierra, que ha pedido al gobierno americano que vacíe todo el continente, porque lo ocuparán ellos cuando lleguen en 4 años.

The alien lord holding me prisoner is the most powerful being I've ever encountered. A winged immortal who can kill with a mere wave of his hand. He's arrogant and alien. Demanding and dangerous. Brutal, even beautiful, though I hate him too much to admit it. He hates me, too. But even though my captor despises me, he needs me. He requires a bride for political reasons, and he makes me an offer I have no choice but to accept. Marry him, play the part of his happy wife, and he'll give me the one thing I want most—my freedom.

Elasa contacts the very special Awares, folk who attune so perfectly to their environment that they can disappear, literally and figuratively. She needs to work with them to try to save Earth from being eaten by huge telepathic galactic maggots.

Alora Church, scientist extraordinaire, is used to being valued for her mind, not her womb. She barely leaves her lab long enough to see the effects of the aliens that have invaded Earth. When her best friend is summoned to become an Axxeon breeder, Alora is prepared to help her run. Until two huge Axxeon warriors show and take Alora captive instead. She thinks there’s nothing worse than being taken as an alien incubator... but she’s wrong. Very wrong.

I attended a Halloween party in New Orleans with another officer from the Alliance Force. We all need to find wives, and costume parties are some of the best places to meet human women as they think our grey skin is a part of our costume. At this All Hallows’ Eve party, I met Ivy. We talked and then exchanged contact information. Not a day goes by that we don’t communicate with each other. She’s the most wonderful woman I’ve ever met. But the problem is, she thinks I’m human.

The Starship Sa Niro and the Starship Sß Oubliette were in orbit around a black hole, one afternoon...by the end of the day, the crews of both starships were dead, victims of a single killer: Captain Alpha Raine. Raine claims he's acting under the command of a voice emanating from the black hole: Mr Modo. No one believes him.Everyone knows that things go into black holes; nothing comes out. But something inexplicable has been happening to Raine, and whatever it is seems to be spreading.

With Finn continuing to combat both inner and outer demons, Zuri, the strong-willed female gunner, and Smith, his deceased but digitally copied Corporal, rise to the challenge as the squad take on the might of the Haven Masters, who crave their old but powerful technology. And, in a last-ditch attempt to recover the lost pathway home, the squad embark on a harrowing mission where they face a devastating decision that will change their lives forever.

A group of scientists arrives to a planet claimed to be uninhabited. They discover it's nothing of the sort.

He’s not from this place. He was given a guilty verdict during an unfair trial and escapes to Earth. An accident renders him unconscious. When he awakes, he has no knowledge of where he came from or who he is. During his recovery, he becomes friends with a beautiful nurse. “John Doe’s” life will never be the same. When he learns the truth of who he is, more questions come up. Did he commit murder or was he framed? Why would someone want to kill the Duke? Why would this person frame John?

FNH Audio present the first in a series of science fiction short story collections. In this collection: On board a starship a ghost of the past fights horrifying monsters. An explorer find a mining crew dead in their beds, but the next day they're up and walking. Humanity is under the thumb of aliens. The Earthers discover a strange fact of ancient history, their ancestors walked on two legs! The Martians are using a white mist to sedate and ambush all the colonists. And more.

Imperium executors face daunting pressure to control their territories. The assembly’s election of a presiding executor upsets the body’s balance of power. A moderate, Gaketork, wins the election, unseating Rebtar. As required by Imperium law, Rebtar is forced to trade territories with Gaketork. Rebtar inherits a territory where a conclave fleet resides. Despite the Imperium’s peacekeepers being ejected by conclave forces from there, the executor orders both patrol fleets to return. This sets up a dangerous collision between the Krackus fleets and the conclave ships.

David Banks reads an exciting original adventure for the tenth Doctor and Martha, as played on TV by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman. The year is 1860, and a lonely house stands on a craggy rock in Ayrshire, Scotland. Inside, two men brace themselves against rushing winds, wailing voices and...

Jake McGraw, independent space trucker, has been shanghaied. He and his crew, fresh off their adventures in Starrigger and Red Limit Freeway, are plucked off the Skyway by a creature of unknown power. Now on an alien planet where most of the rules of the regular universe do not seem to apply, Jake confronts the builders of the Skyway once and for all. Will he and his crew make it out alive?

Forced to leave his clan and his children behind, Ishtar staggers into a vast wilderness and encounters a desert nomad who loves him as a son. When foreign raiders approach, Ishtar must discover if he can move beyond madness, protect his people, and reclaim his family. Eager to know the source of Ishtar’s strength, a watching universe must learn if humanity can save them from a spreading darkness.

Emry thought she was done with alien Romeos who made promises and then ditched you, but their paths continued to cross. What’s a girl to do when the same guy keeps turning up like a bad penny? Steal his ship. Four years ago, Ren made the mistake of choosing duty above his mate, a fragile human female unsuited for his toxic planet. He sent her away and has searched for her ever since. Now fate has brought them back together. She might have stolen his ship and abandoned him, but he won’t let her get away a second time.

A space portal to remote colonies held by Earth is captured by a hostile species, which wants to place a toll on it. While authorities on Earth and considering whether to wage war, they manage to capture an alien spaceship, and hand it over to a group of scientists for military research. Will the scientists succeed in discovering any secrets that will give humanity the upper hand in the impending conflict?

Mateo finds a strange black rock while walking in the hills. A physicist discovers after extensive study that it interacts with its environment, displaying awareness and self-determination. It is so completely different than any other biological form and operates on completely different rules. Yet it interacts with its environment and displays will and self-determination. Is it alive?

Victimized by an unknown alien race and their inexplicable game only weeks before, a small community in northern Los Angeles is preyed upon again by the same aliens and the massive, deadly wall of energy that surround their neighborhood. Led by the same group as before—a charismatic Hispanic female cop, a Hollywood movie grip, a nurse, and a college professor—they struggle to come to grips with the aliens’ agenda, their own difficulties and strategies for survival, and the psychotic plans of an obscure group of religious fanatics based in the area.

Earth is teeming with alien larvae. That reality has just crashed down on us like a ton of contaminated space rocks. Every time I close my eyes, I still see the huge spider-like monster rising up. I killed that one just in time, but we know that more could hatch at any moment. Even worse... we know that if any of them reach their final form, they'll be indestructible. Now, our only hope of saving Earth from this ticking time-bomb lies on the distant world of Eden. The problem? We have reason to think the natives engineered this stuff. If there was any other route forward, we'd be taking it.

Genetically engineered with partly alien DNA, Lieutenant Selene Genji is different from ordinary humans. And they hate her for it. Still, she’s spent her life trying to overcome society’s prejudice by serving in Earth’s Unified Fleet. Genji is stationed on a ship in orbit when humanity’s factional extremism on the planet reaches a boiling point, and she witnesses the utter annihilation of Earth. When the massive forces unleashed by Earth’s death warp space and time to hurl her forty years into the past, Genji is given a chance to try to change the future and save Earth.

The problem is, we didn't come home alone. No one has ever seen anything like this. What they're calling it sends shivers down my spine: a parasitic alien pathogen. It could be a virus, a toxin, or maybe something even worse. And believe me: what we don't know definitely can hurt us. It's too late for me—I've been exposed. But this has never been about me. It's going to take some incredible risks and another long-shot space mission to get to the bottom of this, but I'll fight until my last breath to undo the damage I've done.

In the collection's title story, Frederick Gray is closing in on seventy and has outlived his usefulness as a professor of law. He has no family; his best friend, fellow faculty member Ben Lovell, has recently died. Before Gray moves into a retirement home, he takes a final canoe trip to a favorite fishing spot he and Lovell had visited many times, only to find that someone has built a house on the remote riverside. When an accident leaves Gray stranded and in pain, he returns to the shelter seeking aid and instead finds a new reason for living.

Firestarter does her best to fit in on the Gene, but it's a long jump from stone-tipped spears to starships. Janet and the other girls do their best to help her fit in. Eve and Aika have trouble getting to know a new AI, and Topper's past brings a new problem for the crew to work on. Come along while they work it all out.

Александр Исаакович Мирер (1927—2001) — писательфантаст, переводчик, литературовед. В фантастике дебютировал повестью "Будет хороший день", за которой последовали "У меня девять жизней", "Обсидиановый нож", "Субмарина "Голубой кит"... Но самым знаменитым произведением писателя стала дилогия «Главный полдень» — "Дом скитальцев", с поразительной тщательностью и убедительностью описывающая вторжение на Землю агрессивных инопланетян — "похитителей тел". На этой культовой книге, по праву вошедшей в золотой фонд отечественной фантастики, выросло не одно поколение читателей.

Александр Исаакович Мирер (1927—2001) — писательфантаст, переводчик, литературовед. В фантастике дебютировал повестью "Будет хороший день", за которой последовали "У меня девять жизней", "Обсидиановый нож", "Субмарина "Голубой кит""... Но самым знаменитым произведением писателя стала дилогия "Главный полдень" — "Дом скитальцев", с поразительной тщательностью и убедительностью описывающая вторжение на Землю агрессивных инопланетян — "похитителей тел". На этой культовой книге, по праву вошедшей в золотой фонд отечественной фантастики, выросло не одно поколение читателей.

Five years ago, a group of human researchers and their mercenary friends helped evacuate 26 cetaceans from Earth just ahead of their arrest. The world government didn't approve of their giving the cetaceans pinplants, and it wanted to euthanize the dolphins and orcas in their care. After finding a home on the distant ice-covered ocean world of Hoarfrost, the humans and cetaceans settled in. Less than a year later, they were attacked when the planet's previous owners, the aquatic Selroth, tried to regain possession of it.

Mysterious emanations originating in the Intergalactic void... Suspicious deaths near the galactic rim… An Armada recalled… Another goes missing… While the Confederations Central Council and High Command face the consequences of the inspector's treachery, Michael and his team continue to raise Earth's profile among its neighbors. A trade deal is started. Numerous new Transluminide claims are filed. The Space Force fleet grows.

Клиффорд Саймак — один из отцов-основателей современной фантастики, писателей-исполинов, благодаря которым в американской литературе существует понятие «золотой век НФ». Он работал в разных направлениях жанра, но наибольшую славу — и любовь нескольких поколений читателей — ему принесли произведения, в которых виден его собственный уникальный стиль, который критики называли мягким, гуманистическим и даже пасторальным. За пятьдесят пять лет Саймак написал около тридцати романов и более ста двадцати повестей и рассказов. Награждался премиями «Хьюго», «Небьюла», «Локус» и другими.

Александр Исаакович Мирер (1927—2001) — писательфантаст, переводчик, литературовед. В фантастике дебютировал повестью Будет хороший день, за которой последовали У меня девять жизней, Обсидиановый нож, Субмарина "Голубой кит"... Но самым знаменитым произведением писателя стала дилогия Главный полдень — Дом скитальцев, с поразительной тщательностью и убедительностью описывающая вторжение на Землю агрессивных инопланетян — похитителей тел. На этой культовой книге, по праву вошедшей в золотой фонд отечественной фантастики, выросло не одно поколение читателей. Повести и рассказы А.

With the alien hordes dominating the land and sky, humanity did what it did best—it created the Guardians, massive mecha that were able to take the battle to the aliens, and rushed them into production. But with four continents already about to fall, there was just one question—would they make a difference? Find out today in The Last Stand.

Das Imperium gerät aus den Fugen. Die Großen Häuser verweigern der Thronwelt den Gehorsam und treffen immer häufiger eigene politische Entscheidungen. Selbst die loyalsten Sternsysteme im Kernland des Imperiums spüren die Schwäche der Zentralregierung und leisten den Anweisungen von oben nicht mehr Folge. Ist all das nur eine Verkettung von Zufällen oder vielmehr eine gezielte Kampagne?

Einst war Shizuka Satomi ein Star, heute ist sie die gefragteste Geigenlehrerin der Welt. Wer bei ihr studiert, dem ist eine glänzende Karriere gewiss. Niemand ahnt, dass Shizuka einen Pakt mit dem Teufel geschlossen hat: Sieben Musikerseelen muss sie ihm bringen. Sechs davon hat sie bereits der Hölle übergeben. Nur mit der siebten will es nicht klappen, und langsam läuft Shizuka die Zeit davon. Als sie eines Tages das Geigenspiel der jungen Katrina hört, ist Shizuka sich sicher, die letzte Seele gefunden zu haben.

For more than a decade, Earth has been plagued by black spheres known as Rifts that form in towns and cities without warning and transport people to alien landscapes where monstrous creatures hunt them mercilessly. Anyone lucky enough to escape returns home with an unusual side effect: supernatural powers coursing through their bodies from white crystal shards fused to their chests. With abilities ranging from uncanny agility and strength to immeasurable spell crafting, these Rifters are warriors and mages, battling extraterrestrials whenever a Rift appears.

Первый, и довольно значимый союз налажен. Количество жителей станции и членов личного отряда Хиро постепенно растёт. Всё, вроде, идёт своим чередом, но... Долго ли еще продлится безмятежное время для инопланетянина? И забудет ли система про своего должника? Как и те, кто не очень рад развитию конкурента.

Замкнутая территория, усеянная необычными минами. Опаснейшие твари, способные достать и на крыше небоскрёба, и глубоко под землёй. Множество сонных статистов, которые могут помочь, а могут добить... по настроению. Особые противники с удивительным вооружением и эффективными средствами выслеживания. Непомерные штрафы, выдающие твоё присутствие при любой маскировке.

I'm the captain of Earth's moon base. I can handle any mission. I do not need a partner, even if he is a sexy-as-sin alien commander, who looks at me like he's trying to decide between throttling me or . . . something else. His grumpy demeanor and dominant streak make me want to shake him, but I can't deny the heat between us. Do I dare put my hand to the flame? I've been burned before. And I've guarded my heart ever since. As we travel to a distant planet to find the rare substance that will save both our kinds, we soon discover the inhabitants have some odd customs.

Reporter Tom Lambert decides to reinvestigate the bizarre events of a decade earlier concerning the ‘cosmic noise’. Believing the whole truth was never revealed, he tracks down the one man who knows it: retired astrophysics professor Dr Hayward Petrie. Told in flashbacks, the story unfolds from Petrie’s recordings of the time when he experienced things that made him doubt his own sanity. Invited to visit his old colleague Campbell McLaren, who is in charge of a radio telescope on a remote Hebridean island, Petrie asks students Clifford Brown and Elizabeth Ryder to join him.

Marca Nbaro had always dreamed of serving aboard the Greatships, with their vast cargo holds and a crew that could fill a city. They are the lifeblood of human-occupied space, transporting an unimaginable volume - and value - of goods from City, the greatest human orbital, all the way to Tradepoint at the other, to trade for xenoglas with an unknowable alien species. And now, out in the darkness of space, something is targeting them.

Neither cosmic philosopher Lars Soren, hotshot pilot Bianca Petrescu, nor the high priestess Jessica McHugh—Lady Death herself—can say quite where in the galaxy they are. But after an experiment gone horribly wrong, one thing is clear: Asphodel Station isn’t in orbit around Jupiter any longer. Worse, the monsters that live out here—ancient eldritch beings thought only to exist in stories and nightmares—have now been alerted to Earth’s existence.